Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Have you ever…

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on December 27, 2005
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Have you ever looked around your house at all the cool stuff you have, then for kicks go search for it on eBay to see what others would pay to have it?

I still can’t believe that a mint-condition, still-in-the-box, first-run Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation can’t get a single $5.99 bid. Or that the same HP Jornada PDA I paid $200 for 3 years ago is now lucky to pull $1. Well… mine still works.

Luckily no one seems to have a copy of Starlog Magazine’s "25 Years of Star Trek" anniversary edition autographed by Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhuru) and John de Lancie (Q). I bet it’s worth millions! The non-autographed version.

Oh well. I guess the world hasn’t yet caught up to my level of coolness.

So sad… too bad

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on December 22, 2005
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Here is a link to a Washington Post article… Department’s Mission Was Undermined From Start.

It reveals how truly interested the Bush Administration is in protecting it’s citizens by simply going through the history of the formation of the Department of Homeland Security.

Don’t you feel safer since 9/11?

Presidential Powers

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on December 19, 2005
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I didn’t get to hear the whole press conference, so I’m using <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10530417/" target=”_new”>this CNN.com article for reference.

Today, President Bush said, “As president of the United States and commander in chief I have the constitutional responsibility and the constitutional authority to protect our country.” He also said, “It is legal to do so. I swore to uphold the laws. Legal authority is derived from the Constitution.”

So, first, let’s read the U.S. Constitution. Here’s a link to <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Article2" target=”_new”>Article II, which describes the election process, qualifications, roles and responsibilities of the President. As I read it, among other things like appointing Judges, having veto power over bills, and acting as Commander in Chief over the military, his primary responsibility is to ensure all laws are carried out.
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God loves Americans best

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on December 18, 2005
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I won’t go into this much, but it’s apparent that God is on America’s side. In fact, it’s America and God against the rest of the world.

I mean, President Bush admitted that the 5500 people (3000 at the 9/11 World Trade Center attack plus about 2500 military personell killed in action) who have died in service to the ideals of the United States far outweighs the 30,000 Iraqi’s (mostly innocent women and children) who have died for the same cause. Who reading this wouldn’t argue that "whites" are more valuable in God’s eyes than those terrorist "bleep bleeps"?
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Ok… personal stuff here…

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on December 14, 2005
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I had to pee really bad. So, like most sober men over the age of 4 would do, I made my way to the bathroom.

Ahhh… but then I saw the digital bathroom scale and had an idea. I should determine how much "a good pee" weighs.

So, first, know that I’m fully dressed and wearing my boots.

I weighed myself before peeing… 174.5 lbs.
After peeing… 173.0 lbs.
That means my bladder can hold about 1.5 lbs of pee.

And if a "pint is a pound, the whole world ’round", that means my bladder can hold just a bit less than half a 2 Liter bottle Coke. That may not seem like much… but I suggest you try it.

Who is Santa Claus?

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on December 10, 2005
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I ran across an interesting site today that EVERYONE should visit.

Who is Santa Claus by the St. Nicholas Center.

And this is what honesty will get you…

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on December 8, 2005
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I used to say, "Like you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink, you can lead a Christian to the Truth, but you can’t make him think."

My revised version, after reading this CNN article is:

"… you can lead a Christian to the Truth, but you can’t make him think… and you risk losing your job, your tenure, your chair position and/or getting your ass beaten by a couple of typically violent and deranged yet oh-so-Christian Fundies".

I bet Pat Robertson put them up to it. Or maybe it was… hmmm… perhaps… could be… SATAN!

An interesting proposal…

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on December 8, 2005
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I was, as I do sometimes, reading CNN.com when I ran across this article about comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He suggested that Israel should be relocated to Europe. Of course he suggested some other things, such as that the Holocaust never happened, that most would consider absurd. But the suggestion that Israel should be a European state might have some merit.

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